In memory: Debi Sundahl

The founder of On Our Backs has passed; a revolutionary in women’s sex education, independent cinema, and publishing

© Honey Lee Cottrell, portrait of Deborah Sundahl, 1985.

My friend, and 1980s partner in turning the world upside-down— Deborah Sundahl— has died. The cause of death was cancer, and she passed away in hospice, in Billings, Montana. She was 69.

I’d like to offer some recollections and photographs, as well as those of Brenda Marston, the librarian of the Hu…